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FAQltM. m CABOUNA TIMKS SATUmPAT, JULY SO. 1»8» THE WAKE COUNTY AND CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL PLAN Negroes in Wake County end cnapelUill would do well to study me plans now bei^ oxtered by their respective ■cnool boaixls before they be gin to rejoice that their chil dren are to receive equal op portunities with those of t^ wiute pe^le. While we have not had tune to make a care ful study of the plan in Chap el HiU to admit “a few” I4e- gro students to white schools, we have made a more detail ed study of the Wake County plan and are convinced that it is more of a Trojan horse than a victory, so far as our group is concerned. The mere fact that Negro children in Cliapel Hill must make application in writing and their requests, according to the board, must be well founded "appears to us to be somewhat ot a discriminatory poucy Itself. We are wonder- ihg a white children desirii^ to enter a school of their choice are required to under go the same rigid test; if not, t^en we are suspicious of the Cnapel Hill plan and will hesitate to acclaim it as a vic tory for Negro citizens of that eommunity. So far as the Wake County program is concerned, there is no doubt in our minds that the school board is attempt ing to throw the Negro cit izens a curve. The very fact that it was adopted UN ANIMOUSLY by the board and some 50 school commit teemen have UNANIMOUS LY approved the plan makes us suspicious that there is something rotten in the coun ty of Wake. A close inspection of terms under which a child may be admitted to a school makes us doubly doubtful of the sin cerity of the Wake County tioard. The Wake County plan says; “No child shall be assign ed to any school in Walw County on the basis of race or color. The responsibility for as signment of children to the several schools of the coun ty as placed by act of the 1X55 (ieneral Assembly is assumed by the Board of Education. Every assign ment of a child to one of tae schools of the county snail De considered and ad judged individually on one or more ef the toliowing bases: (a) Needs and welfare of the child. ' (b) Welfare and best In terest of all other chil dren. (c) Availability of facili ties, including trans portation. -jessiidi (d) Fitness of facilities, including health. (e) Aptitude of the child and curriculum adjust ment of the schooL (f) Residence of the child. (g) All other factors con sidered pertinent, re levant and material affecting either child or the schools.” This newspaper intends to ise all of the patience pos sible in an attempt to cooper ate with various school bouds of the cities and counties of the state and to so advise its readers. On the other hand, we shaU be ever on the alert to expose forthwith any at tempt on the part of a s^ool or individual to circumvent the law of the land as laid down by the United States Supreme Court. We think this as much our bounden duty as that of exposing any other subversive element seeking to over throw the government ot this nation. The victory won in the pubUc school s^egation case was a hard earned one and we warn Negro leaders that if the race is to reap the bene fits they must be ever on the' alert for various high-sound ing and well laid schemes to circumvent it “Eternal vigil ance is the price of freedom.” BUILD FOR lOMORROW From whatever direction you cross tae seas to return to uus land, you see first a numic vision duplicated no- wuere else, the American sky line. XMew York — New 05r- Icctns — San Franscisco — bediue — your eye catches tae uutlme of the tall struc- tuies towering as freedom‘’s ciiiuienge to tne world. The American skline is there as tue trademark of a land of boi.nuiess resources in ima- gixuiUua ,energy and thrift 11 signalizes tue strength and secuiity oi tae nation, made ■u 4ieciiu>e our people have cuiL>eivea their strength to aAbuie tueu: security. Thia Cuuniry's laith m itself is cpiuuiL«d m toe United bukUib £• and H Savmgs iiond piogiam lor ail ol us. More than anything else the Au^ericiui skyime is the puyt>icai eviaence ot Ameri can lUvestmentHpower anu tae reaogrces oi American sav ings. it IS a monument to tne tuieinougnt oi tnritt Tiiis is tne country that nas looked always to the tuture. It has become strong because its peupie invested in it, as they u turn nave lared well be cause of tnat investment re turn. Tiiink well! Every dollar put into America comes back m dividends. These are paid not alone, in the ri^ reward ot living in liberty under God, not alone ui the highest stand ard of living for a whole peo ple that the world has ever imown. Dividends are earned too from every individual in vestment in the savings bond program of the nation. From childhood our thrifty parents iiave taught us that, only as we save from our earning years. Can we guar antee the security of life’* evening. We can protect tiie needs or our growmg iamU^es by conservation oi our re sources df today against the certam of tomrrow. 'mere are tew, if any, more practicable means' mveet- mg at once in tne security of our country and of ourselves tnan m methodical purcnase .01 i!i and H bavmgs Bonds. Your money is lent to the Na tion today. The country re turns It to you in your own time oi need with its inter est earnmg augmenting your mvesmtent. * Few of us are able to put substantial sums in eitner hank or securities. But no wage earner need be deterred irom orderly saving by that iact. By utilizing payroll withholdings in the purciiase of savings bonds, regular investment is open to the KTTiall income and salary. Your regular weekly or periodical deduction will range you with 40 million American families that own U. S. Savings Bonds. Four out of every ten of them earn less than $5,000 a year. Saving Bonds are an asset to Ameri can wealth. But, in sober truth, they are a godsend to the worker whose dollars must be budgeted to go as far as possible and still be ready to meet every emergen^. That American sltyline is the vis^e evidence Amec* lean investment at work. Ev ery business or industry that its structures house is kept gomg by the activity of Amer ican dollars, invest^ to serve and earn. The Nation is such an mdustry, the greatest of them all. Your dollars, placed m its service, keep the wheels oi government turning. Your Bond-arMoath bought from tne Umted States finances its huge service to all of us. Your family structure is only as secure as your own energy and your own thrift No spendthrift family suc ceeds. No spendthrift Nation survives. So your country is only as secure as the confid ence and strength of the in vestment of all Americans in it Keep Amenca strongl Keep America secure! Buy a bond a month] AnEMPTlNG TO DIVIDE THE LEADERSHIP The Carolina Times is glad to publish on its front page this week Dr. P. A. Bishop’s denial of the statement at tributed to tiim by an official of the N. C. Conference of NAACP Branches which met in haieigh on July 16. We are glad to do so because this newspaper regards him as one of the most forthright lead ers of the race on tto matter of civil rights for his people. Tlie statement was given a representative of this news paper by N. L. Gregg of Ureensboro, treasurer of the NAACP state conference, in the presence of several other persons during the Raleigh meeting. Mr. Gregg it will be recalled was a member of the advisory committee to the Pearsall Committee, appoint ed by Governor Luther Hod ges, to study the matter of in tegration in the public scnools. For a long number of years this newspaper has followed the career oi Dr. Bishop, as a minister and a leader M his race, with great admiration. We recall that at a meeting of the Lott Carey Baptist Con vention in September of 1954 he made what we considered a most couragemis statement on the matter of the Supreme Coiurt’s rul^ on segregation in the public schools at which time he said: “We want everything in the world that any other civilized Christian citizen may desire. We are determined by the help ot God Almighty to continue struggling, contending and fighting ior the type of cit- izenstup that will let us act free and live free in the'land of freedom protected by the brotherhood of mankind.” “We have no hate nor ill- wiU toward any one. Our goal is the same as that for which the founders of this country fought and the people aU over the world are joining hand in hand struggl^ for freedom. “It should be our Inten tions to support the Supreme law of the land as handed down by the Supreme Court The Chri^tlah church caimot ke^ silent without blood- staining the garment of our crucified ILord i^gain.” Certainly after kno' that Dr. Bishop had made such a fine and straightfor ward statement as above on the most momentous question to confront the Ne^o since that of slavery, we were seri ously taken back when it was reported to us that he had SATVRDAY Ot JULY 30, 19SS L. K. AUSTIN Ptiblishar CLATHAN M. KOSS, Editor U. ALBERT SMITH, Managing Et^r M. E. JOHNSON, BnstneM Blanager J£^£ CUFiELO, CircHlatioa Manager Mfmrr Sauirbar ej VMTMD Mo atianniM of pubUMttoa of ouolleMod ■>«••• (UL lAttan io tlw •dUor tat pubUosttaa mmt iw Mnad and nonflnort to MM wocda. Od* Tmt. iwmtitm nntrt» ■m taken what qppMtvd to be an opposite stand before the Pearsall Committee to that previously taken by him. As we come closer and doe- er to the hour of decision on the matter of Integration our top-ranking leaders are going to have to close ranks and guard with utmost alertness their statements with regards to the matter of integration. State officials, the white press and-reactiomoy think ers are combing the state in effort to find some Negro of importance ..who will acc^t the mantle of compromising leadership carried for so many years by hand-picked Negro leaders in this state. ^veral days ago the daily press here in Durham quoted the Negro member of the Durham City Counc il as ad vocating a middle-of-the-road policy on the matter of inte gration when in reality he ad vocated BO hm and no man than that of the NAACP and oliier piogresdve leaden. parentiy the plan was to weaken the councilman’s in fluence with his own group to encourage him to talu a more condliatoiy stand on the question of integration. The scheme is to divide and conquer the Negro foroee, to- separate southern Negroes from northern Negroes, Jfe- gro leaders in busfiiess, Qu estion and religion from lead ers in the NAACP. All of us must realize, and that most quickly, that when the die is finally cafit it will be cast against all Negroes, whatever their status, and whether tl^ are membos of the NAACP or not members. The one eter nal thing to do now is to stand steadfast and unmovable on our right to walk the high ways and byways of this na tion as free men. Life Is Like That Bj a ALBERT SiOTB Double-Talking Leadership Shakespeare was right when he said that consistency is a jewel. The fact becomes clear ly evident when one is en gaged in the battle to effect a program ol righteousness among men. Specifically, we mean to gain rights and realize common moral decency in the field ol human relationships. And nobody knows that any better than a champion ol hu man rights who belongs to an oppressed minority group. AN EXAMPLE An example ol this is at hand in the present controver sy with regard to public scjjool integration. A group ol Ne groes met in Durham a lew montlis ago and dralted a statement calling lor the im plementation ol the Supreme Court decision on the matter. In other words, the statmnent called lor putting into eHect the decision as' soon as possi ble. The presentation could not by any means be called radi cal, extremist, or anything else which could be interpreted in that light. It was temperate and reasonable and represent ed thinking and leeling no sell-respecting juan could es' cape. KONE OPP^SEDi At the meeting, thelte as sembled leaders ol the race and others representing a cross section Irom various walks ol lile. Opinions and views were exchanged but none was in op position or contrary to the policy which the group finally adopted and on Tuesday, Feb. 21, presented in a carefully prepared statement to Gover nor Luther V. Hodges and the General Assembly. '* UNITED FRONT Approximately' 300 Negro leaders Irom all over the state headed by spokesman J. H. Wheeler, president ol the Me chanics 1$ Farmers Bank, con verged on Raleigh lor this ap pearance belore the state so- lons and through Wheeler re gistered their opposition to any bill that would circumvent the ruling ol the U. S. Su preme Court that segregation in the public schools is illegal and therelore must be abolish ed. ' REVERSED THEMSELVES But, since that time, a lew Negro leaders have given out with a dlllerent line of talk. When asked questions about integration by prominent white people, t^y have re versed themselves. One is re ported to have said, i^hen laced by white people about integrati(m that he thought “we ought to drop it.” RIGHT OF OPINION Now, 1 liave no quarrel with the thesis that every man lias a right to his own opinion pro vided that opinion has rootage in reason and reality and hurts nobody. Neither do I question the right ol a nian to change opinion. But when » man lias two opinions regarding the same matter, one lor the Ne gro group and one lor whites— well, tliat is'a horse ol a dU- lerent color. AN OPPORTUNIST To tell the truth, such a per son can hardly be called in consistent; the word is too mild. He is either one ol two things (maybe a combination ol each) a coward and an op portunist. And, in my book, an opportunist is a person who converts every circumstance to his own advantage irrespective as to truth, conviction, ideal or who gets hurt. MAN WAS HONEST A lew days ago, 1 had a chat with a white man who had broui^t up the question of in- te^^fion and expressed him- sell as being immovably set against it. 1 still hold respect lor him even though he was unable to give tne any reason lor his conviction other tlian that he had been raised to be lieve that the races shouldn’t mix. Even when he quietly told me he would send his ^lildrra to Gewgia to sehool il integration is eHected in North Carolina, I could still hold a measure ol respect tor him, along with pity. QUOTED NEGRO LEADER But you can imagine the jolt he gave me when he quoted a Negro leader as saying that we didn't need integration in this city because the Negro schools are just as good as the white schools. The leader in question has expressed a dlllerent view to his own i>eople and has led them to believe that he is solidly behind the' Suprme Court integration order. CAN UNDERSTAND. I can understand, even il I can’t admire, the lear that leads a himgry man to change times on command regardless as to what the musical scr^t calls lor. But I can neither im- derstand nor respect the man in high position and good (Continued on Page Five) 'Only liirough integration Can Tiieir Power Bo Broicen' oOllTHERN PRESSURE Uf 6R0UP3? > . FEAft PS - Spiritual Insight By Reverend Rarold Roland PASTOR, MOUNT GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH 'The Blessedness Of Forgiveness" Blessed is he who transgres sion Is forgiven, whose sin is covered...P$a. 32:L There is a matchless inner peace ol soul that lOUows for giveness. The Psalmist rightly calls this a state ol joyous blessedness. It is indeed a state ol inner happiness or blessedness. It is a state ol blessedness to l>e in liarmony with God and man. Well, true forgiveness means that we are attuned or ^ iiarmony with God and man. Transgression, iniquity or sin means that the soul is out ol step with God. It also means that there is not a state ol harmony between our soul and our lellowman. Forgiveness means that there is thia reconciliation between the creator and the creature. It means that a broken relation has been healed. The soul can not be at peace when its not in harmony with God. God’s for gives reestablishes inner soul harmony. Thus we liave tlie blessedness ol forgiveness. A primary element, there fore, in all real prayer should be tiiat cry ol the soul to God for forgiveness. Some inner thought or outward deed may have interrupted that state ctf peace between God and the soul. Forgiveness is thus the healiag balm ol the wayward soul. It is the longing ol the soul for wholeness and health. It is the peacelul longing ol the disturbed and restless sotU ol man. Be honest with your- sell. Lay bare your soul belore God for this healing and peacelul touch. Our prayer should be an honest inner searching ol the soul for the blessedness ol forgiveness. At the end ol each day we ought sincerely say in prayer: Dear Lord, forgive me for the un holy thought, word or deed. He who honestly seeks and finds forgiveness will know a sweet blessedness ol souL What spiritual wisdom we have..."Blessed is he whose transgressions is forgiven...” Why would you deny your sell the rich beauty and power ol such inward spiritual bles sedness? This is an important part ol that peace which pass- eth all understanding. God in his infinite mercy ia ever ready to forgive you. He oilers the blessedness ol forgiveness. Why carry the burden and endure the inner pain ol Guilt? Why would you suUer when there is reliel? Why en dure the pangs ol an uneasy conscience? How long will you endure soul sickness when there is healing? When we liave physical pains we go to the Doctor or the dentist. The unlorgiving spirit is an inward spiritual pain. The unlorgiving sin creates papgs ol tortuous agony in the soul. God's peace awaits you il you will only seek and find his forgiveness, ^e is ready to lorgive. Talte^ to God. God will give-^u re liel Irom the painlul agony of sin. That is what tliis writer is ^ talking about...“I will conless my transgressions to the Lord. “Tiiou didst lorgive the guilt ol my sin..” Truly there is a rich reward ol blessedness lor it is peace for the disturbed and restless soul. The unlor- givien wrong we commit throws the soul into a state of restless inner turmoil and con flict. We liave seen the raging restless souls. Why? The un- lorfiving spirit is in a ^te ol stress, tension and pressure. Every wrong thought or deed adds a bt ol inner pressure in the soul. Thus we have the state ol restlessness. Forgive ness lilts the burden. And then there comes a calmness and deep inner peace. It is tha blessedness ol lorgiveness. Qmital Qose-Up By CONSTANCE DANIELS Summer Malies Summer^* Is a pollens tickle the le irlod of dapping and seratehing. GnuMss and .w*. and no8«, Usck flies, mosqnitoM and ehi««is exasperate the ^hi. The pain ol eren a bee stiag, lor nuunr, is inom eMily «iiiiu*«d'than tlw sgonixiDff UeUng that fraqamtlT foliowb. >• optimists thought that insects were «■ tl A decadejom« to extinction. DDT was eliminat ing insects 'from bams and homes with the same efficiency it had dis played in the iunde areas in which our World War II troops lought. Today, althouj^ DDT and ^er newer chemicals are StiQ' doing their Job wdl, any camper knows tiiat woods, msadk>«rg and brook- sides are not yet free Irom biting buM or other sources ol irritation. Entomologists, the scientists who study bags, are incliaed to feel that insect Immunity to poi sons is fortiinate. They hare warned that man cannot destroy insect life throughout large areas without cbaacing nature’s balance in ways which could result in seri ously redudeg. food supplies for other wild life or otherwise threat ening surriTai, eiven of maa him self. Doctora have pointed out, for example, that indiicriminate use of DDT could fatally poison meat and dairy prodvcts and, through them, humans. Fortunately, there has been de veloped another approach to -the insect problem, one which does not aim at elimination of the pests Imt which offers relief to many of their victims. The antihistamine drugs, so sailed because they counteract' histamine, the chemical released in itbenad the tissues as a reaction to ap ia- sect sting, can now be reoom. mended as safe and effective reme. dies for insect bites. In a recent study the antihistamino Bristiuidn, was given by moutii to more than 2,000 persons of whom only three reported any side effects traceabie to the drug. Th^ fdt somewhat drowsy after takibg it. Antihista mines like Bristamin can be taken internally and also applied in lo tion form directly to th# itching area. Uoreover, taken .internally, ^ey can be used to treat Such u- fuiraons as hay fever, ssthma, etc. which are'caused by over coneen- tratioBs ol hiitamine as an allsr* gic reactioa to eertaia poUm ^ Gross in the Car Track* Grass is growing along the tracks ol your Capital’s transit system. No oan, ao buses have run on Washington’s streets for more than three weeks. Business if “otf" by wide ni|r- gins - merchants IranticaUy price-slashing, changing store hours, even ollering to pay shoppers' taxi lares, in an at tempt to catch the private-car trade, bring out the stay-at- homes and fill near-empty store aisles. Grass in Other Tracks In late January, Close-Up noted the advent ol a new five-member watch-dog com mittee on Government Em ployment Policy, authorized to make investigations, and re sponsible dir«;tly to the Prasi- dent (The old Fair Employ ment Board could initiate nottiing, and was responsible to the Civil Service Commis sion.) The chairman of the new Board was Chicago law yer Maxwell Abbell, now in Europe lor the summer, or longer. Archibald Carey ol Chicago, a public member, is Acting Chairman. Assistant Secretary ol Labor J. Smest Wilkins is a Government mem ber. We relerred to th»m both- hopeluUy-as “go-getters." But alter six months, the grass appears to be growing, here, also. II any action moved over these tracks, we liavcn’t "heard telL” Although the committee has held month ly meetingB-the latest on Mon day through WedMKlajr, last week-there have been no re ports ol-decisions, and no pub lic releases ol any kind. Ac cording to the office o# Qwen- dolyn Tice, Acting Executive Secretary of the Committee, the on^ pybli^hed. m^tni^ have been policy memos cor- culated only to the various agencies. Miss Tice, who is without authority, appears to be limited to "taken tmder ad visement” replies to qjiestions; This “grass may be diUerent from that which grew in such prolusion around the old FEP Committee. II there is a difference, the public would lilce to know it. It should know what, 11 any positive action has been taken. Adam Pulled His Punch When West Virginia’s 69- year-old Cleveland Bailey (Democrat), swung a “solid one” at 46-year-old Adam Powell (Democrat), in a de bate over Powell’s anti-segre- gation amendment to the School-Aid Bill, during a closed session ol the House Educstion and Labor Com mittee, the big New Yorker pulled his pimch. Powell con tended himsell with warding oil the ire ol his smaller and much older adversary, with whom he later shook hands. The Bailey wrath broke when Adam said Bailey lied in ques- iioning. the sincerity ol his prolerred amendment, which lost, in committee, by a 17-10 vote, following the incident. 11 the scliool-ald bill is cleared for debate by the all-power- lul Rules Committee, Adam thinks he will “be forced” to oiler bis much-criticized pro posal as an amendnnmt, whan the bill reaches tiie Sloor of the House. ‘ _ Anti-Integration Via Pay Raise Gimmicks A sliding-scale provision lor three categories ol School Su perintendents salaries may be the gimmick by which Missis sippi's Congressman Thomas Q. Abemethy,- who chairs the isub-committee on teacheis’ pay, expects to knock .out school integration or reduce it to token action, here in the Federal City. The scale pro vides lor superintendents with out the master’s degree, as well as for those with master’s and earned doctorates. The Disti;ict ol Columbia Board ol Education has established no criteria for superintendents’ qualifications. It is all left to the appointed Board, which is about as predicteble as the mercury. Congressional pres sure could, with very little trouble, put the District’s school system under the direc tion ol an inadequately-train ed superintendent who would do the idding of his sponsors. Mr. Abemethy, it is reportedi has already called in the pre sent superintendent, and the School Board’s «^h«rman and put them' on notice to go slow on integration—or else. Eartha "Takes" the Dee Cee Press Eartha Kitt was here, last week, at the Casino Royal. We didn’t see her downtown show. Neither did we meet her with the Fourth Esteters. We Just read about her mwaMng (Continued on Page live)
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